Hidden In Plain Sight: Text to Image / Image to Text in Ancient and Colonial Mexico

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Before the arrival of Europeans, native Mexican artists, scribes, and patrons encoded within their visual and written material their beliefs, aspirations, and histories. This process continued into the colonial era, where alphabetic texts grew steadily in significance at the expense of the visual and glyphic traditions. This session explores the relationship between text, image, and motivation in the visual, written, and oral histories of ancient and colonial Mexico, focusing, in particular, on the reciprocal and occasionally contentious relationship of text and image.

Sub Track

• Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

Chair

• William L Barnes, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Individual Presentations

• Considerations on Materiality of the Text - Victoria I Lyall, San Francisco State University

• Rediscovering the Hidden City: Tlatelolco in Aztec Art and History - William L Barnes, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

• The Two Moteuczomas: Text-Image Soundscapes - Patrick T Hajovsky, Southwestern University

• Revealing the Hidden Agendas of the Relación de Michoacán’s Collaborators in the Tension between Its Text and Images. - Angelica J Afanador-Pujol